{"id":6753,"date":"2015-01-14T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=6753"},"modified":"2015-01-14T11:20:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:20:48","slug":"vegetarian-scholarship-note-from-izzy-pezzulo-2014-vrg-scholarship-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/vegetarian-scholarship-note-from-izzy-pezzulo-2014-vrg-scholarship-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"VEGETARIAN SCHOLARSHIP: NOTE FROM IZZY PEZZULO 2014 VRG SCHOLARSHIP WINNER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A note from Izzy Pezzulo, a 2014 VRG Scholarship winner:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll never forget how the VRG Scholarship continues to change my life.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m now attending the University of Richmond, where I&#8217;m currently rocking<br \/>\nthe vegan lifestyle and looking to promote it by baking my peers vegan<br \/>\ncookies, and potentially starting a vegetarian society on campus.<br \/>\nWithout VRG, all of this might not have been possible, and I am truly<br \/>\ngrateful. Over the holiday I&#8217;ve had time to reflect on the parts of my<br \/>\nlife that are so influential to who I am today. I owe VRG a huge thanks<br \/>\nfor making me successful in my switch to veganism, and now my education<br \/>\nas well. <\/p>\n<p>-Izzy<\/p>\n<p>To see Izzy&#8217;s past work, go to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/isabella-pezzulo-is-a-5000-vrg-college-scholarship-winner-from-florida\/\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/isabella-pezzulo-is-a-5000-vrg-college-scholarship-winner-from-florida\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deadline for the 2015 scholarship contest is February 20, 2015. For<br \/>\ndetails, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to apply for a needs based paid internship, go to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/eleanor_wolff_scholarship.php\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/eleanor_wolff_scholarship.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to donate towards scholarships, internships, or other<br \/>\nVRG outreach, go to: <a href=\"www.vrg.org\/donate\">www.vrg.org\/donate<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note from Izzy Pezzulo, a 2014 VRG Scholarship winner: I&#8217;ll never forget how the VRG Scholarship continues to change my life. I&#8217;m now attending the University of Richmond, where I&#8217;m currently rocking the vegan lifestyle and looking to promote it by baking my peers vegan cookies, and potentially starting a vegetarian society on campus. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6757,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions\/6757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}